Blossom Festival Mass Meeting Program Set
The 22nd annual Blossom Festival mass meeting opens at 8 p m in the George Washington hotel ballroom. President H Delmer Robinson will speak, with Haver and Hodgson leading music, Mayor Clowe welcoming, and a slate of festival directors to present plans. Earl Bunting will headline talking on The Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival An American Institution. A post intermission film Historical Virginia closes the program.
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Abner L Johnson
George Washington Hotel
H. Delmer Robinson
Singing of America
Lewis F. Havermale
Joseph Hodgson
Charlotte DeHart
William Battaile
M. B. Clowe Jr
Handley Glee Club
Gwendolyn Haynes
America
Cain
Katinka
Friml
Martin
Reg Finkelstein
Miss Deart
Harry F. Byrd Jr
H. B. McCormac Jr
Thomas Scully
Clark Cooper
Edward Molden
L. G. Sjostrom
Kenneth Miller
John A. Boyd
Amos Shryock
J. R. Alexander
J. C. Ott
Virginia Boyd Barr
Garland Quarles
Frank Armstrong Jr
E. Blackburn Moore
Virginia Apple Commission
Carroll Miller
Appalachian Apple Service
William Blicity
Sea Virginia State Ber of Commerce
H. F. Benchoff
Massanutten
Hagerstown
Virginia
Concert Association Dinner Opens Member Drive
Winchester Concert Association held its annual dinner at Sarah Zane hall with 40 attendees including officers and volunteers. The meeting launched a week long campaign to enroll a capacity audience that would ensure another full concert season for 1949 50. Jay H. Lowden led America and Rev. Lewis F. Havermale gave the invocation. Continued on Page 13 Col 1.
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Winchester
Japanese Cherry Trees Bloom On Handley Boulevard
A student observer reports warm rains in the last 24 hours have caused Japanese cherry trees to blossom pink along Handley boulevard. First blossoms appear on the Stewart St. side near Handley circle, with larger trees there than those eastward on the strip not yet in flower.
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Handley Boulevard
Grass Lane
Stewart St
Handley Circle
Record Highway Travel Peaks in Staunton District
February traffic on the Staunton district primary highways set an all time record. The Winchester area saw volume 19.23 percent above February 1948 and 53.52 percent higher than February 1941, according to the State highway department.
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Staunton
State Highway Department
Winchester
Canada Plans Wide Tax Cuts and Deregulation Drive
Canada would slash income taxes by 32 percent and raise exemptions for singles couples and dependents. It would repeal or cut commodity taxes on candy soft drinks and jewelry lifting price controls on many goods while retaining rent and some steel controls. Finance Minister Abbott projected continued prosperity with a budget surplus and inflation easing as Parliament weighs the plan and the Liberals seek a general election.
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Ottawa
Canada
Douglas C. Abbott
Louis St. Laurent
National Liberal Party
Abbott
Marks Elected To Festival Board
C. P. Marks, local manager of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co., was elected a 1949 director of the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival Board at a directors meeting this morning at the George Washington hotel. The board approved a $27,000 budget for all Festival expenses and authorized 1800 bleacher seats. A committee to study seat rental policy was authorized, and two resolutions praising Philip W. Boyd and Ray Robison were passed unanimously.
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Mr. Robinson
Clifford Grim
Frank Armstrong
H. Delmer Robinson
H. B. McCormac Jr
Tom Baldridge
Eugene R. Branch
C. R. White
McSherry Lupton
Garland Quarles
A. J. Bowen
Walker McBond
D. K. Russell
T. G. Scully
W. H. Bosserman
C. T. Cooper
E. W. Barr
L. G. Sjostrom
F. L. Largent Jr
Clifford
River Floods Rise After Night Rain in Virginia
Heavy rains drenched Virginia overnight causing streams to swell with the James River at Scottsville reported out of its banks and still rising as of today.
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Richmond
Virginia
Scottsville
James River
Dr. Graham Named U.S. Senator from North Carolina
Dr. Frank P. Graham, educator and UNC president, chosen by Gov. Scott as North Carolina’s junior U.S. senator after the death of J. Melville Broughton. The 62-year-old Democrat is a civil rights advocate who has faced Communist attacks in Congress and faced Oak Ridge Institute security clearance controversy.
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Raleigh
N. C
Frank P. Graham
North Carolina
U. S
W. Kerr Scott
University of North Carolina
J. Melville Broughton
Graham
Congress
Hebert
D-La
Communist Party
Atomic Energy Commission
Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies
Richmond Flour Mill Burns in South Richmond Fire
A fire destroyed the two main buildings of Dixie Portland flour mills in South Richmond early this morning causing about 1 million dollars in damage. The blaze, reported just after 4 30 a m, completely engulfed the structures while a nearby elevator plant escaped damage.
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Richmond
Dixie Portland Flour Mills
Labor Bill Veto by Truman Predicted by Republicans
Republicans privately bet President Truman will veto the administration substitute for the Taft-Hartley Act when it reaches Congress. They argue a veto would preserve the Taft-Hartley Act, and Congress would sustain it. Bricker and Taft appear favored for 1952 GOP prospects as Truman reshuffles his cabinet.
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Truman
Washington
Capitol
Congress
John L. Lewis
Senate Interior Committee
James Boyd
Bureau of Mines
Lewis
Roy Becaen
Senate
Mr. Truman
Bricker
John W. Brcker
Ohio
Taft
J. Howard McGrath
William Boyle
Committee
McGrath
Boyle
James Forrestal
Louis John
Taft seeks $1 billion cut in Europe recovery fund
Senator Taft said he will vote to trim up to one billion dollars from the Marshall Plan renewal bill when it reaches the Senate, while the House panel approved a smaller government outlay and encouraged private investment to boost Europe’s recovery. He backed continuing the program overall despite the proposed cut.
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Washington
Taft
Senate
Economic Cooperation Administration
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Europe
ECA
Sam
Vandenberg
Ohioan
Three Hurt in Early Morning Corner Collision
A two car crash at the Piccadilly and Braddock streets intersection in Winchester left three people with minor injuries. Vehicles were a 1937 Chevrolet sedan driven by L. G. Carpenter and a 1929 Ford driven by Grace Kline with Mrs. F. B. Price and Laura Kline riding along. Mrs. Kline was sent to the hospital for x rays. Damage estimates totaled $175.
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Piccadilly
Braddock Sts
Winchester
L. G. Carpenter
Piccadilly St
Ford
Grace Kline
Fairmont Ave
F. B. Price
Laura Kline
Kline
House group slashes Army Engineers funds
The House appropriations committee proposed a 586 million cut to Army Engineers civil functions for river and harbor flood control, sending a bill to the floor. The reduction, 24 percent from Truman's request, shifts costs to a separate overseas relief bill and trims maintenance and construction by 109 and 55 million respectively. The panel expects lower bids and possible further cuts if costs do not fall.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Army
House
Truman
Crippled Children Drive Nets $800 in Winchester Campaign
R J Mc Nally Jr treasurer of the Winchester chapter reports $800 collected since March 17 as the Easter Seal drive continues through Easter. The Winchester Frederick Clarke area goal is $2500 with contributions from $1 upward. State and local work includes therapeutic services and other support.
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Virginia Society For Crippled Children and Adults
R. J. McNally Jr
Winchester
McNally
Last Rites Tomorrow For Winchester Banker John I Sloat
Funeral services for John I. Sloat 75, dean of Winchester bankers, will be held 3 p.m. tomorrow at Market St. Methodist church. Interment will be in Mt. Hebron cemetery. Nephews serve as pallbearers. directors of the Commercial and Savings bank are honorary pallbearers. Sloat, native of Winchester, helped start The Item and Winchester Evening Star, after a long banking and printing career.
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Market St. Methodist Church
John I. Sloat
Winchester Bankers
Winchester Hospital
L. F. Havermale
A. W. Wright
Braddock St
F. W. Danley
I.W. Ebert
Herbert Harmer
John G. Crisman Jr
Charles S Crisman
Eugene H and
Carroll Campbell
The
Commercial and Savings Bank
Herbert S. Larrick
C. R. Anderson
S. Boyd Howell Bond
Charles P. McVicar
Pred Brumback
Grover Terts
L. Jackson
H. R. Edwards
Jones Funeral Home
Kremlin influence cited in World Peace Conference plan
The State Department views the New York World Peace Conference as a Moscow move against the North Atlantic pact and other Soviet aims. Officials said the U S barred 11 delegates from Europe and South America, while 21 delegates come from Soviet Russia and eastern Europe.
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Washington
New York
State Department
Moscow
South America
Soviet Russia
Eastern Europe
Bewildered Says Rep Edith Rogers Faces Suit
A young wife sues seeking dissolution alleging her naval husband carried on a long affair with Edith Nourse Rogers the 67 year old Massachusetts congresswoman. Rogers termed the claim ridiculous and said she cannot understand the uproar.
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Edith Rogers
Washington
Edith Nourse Rogers
Massachusetts
Eilene Diana Latta-Lawrence
Harold Alexander Latta-Lawrence
Congress
Braithwaite Sentenced to Year in Penitentiary
Herbert Braithwaite of Gore received a one year penitentiary term from Circuit Court Judge Elliott Marshall after pleading guilty to larceny of $20 and a fifth of wine from Bert's club on R. 50 west. He faced 12 other indictments for iron grate larceny tied to M. J. Grove Lime Co. kiln. several co-defendants pleaded guilty or stood trial, with some at large and others still contesting charges.
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Herbert Braithwaite
Gore
Elliott Marshall
Bert
Green
Clark
Bailey
Clarence Tucker
J. Frederick Larrick
T. G. Scully
Day
Dabney Watts
Wayne
R. R. Smith
Melvin Ray Jennings
Robert Sylvester Tinsman
Melvil Clarence
Protests Planned By Many Groups Against World Peace Conference
New York March 23 Patriotic civic and veterans groups plan a mass protest against the world peace conference opening Friday under the National Council of the Arts Sciences and Professions. The Peoples' Committee for Freedom of Religion coordinates a large picket line following an unorganized drive by many groups. Leaders say thousands will attend and the slogan proclaims Communists are not welcome here. We don't want you. Get out.
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New York
National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions
Peoples’ Committee For Freedom of Religion
State Dept Sets Visa Rules for World Peace Conference
The department classified 21 officials as official foreign government representatives who qualify for visas, while other participants are treated as nonofficial excludable. Harvard astronomer Dr Harlow Shapely appealed to Secretary Acheson, but the department remains firm on its policy.
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State Department
Shapely
Acheson
Harlow Shapely
Harvard
National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions
Lions of District Plan Spring Dinner in Berryville
Lions zone dinner at Stephens City fire hall discussed spring social and dance at Berryville re house on April 7. Zone Chairman Gene Newkirk presided with representatives from Fauquier club and district officials in attendance. Next Stephens City dinner will host district governor's night April 12 with Gov James C. Hill as guest.
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Berryville
Lions Zone
Stephens City
Gene Newkirk
Purcellville
C. A. Hobert
Fauquier Club
Marshall
M. M. Maddox
James M. Herbert
Delaplane
Winchester
Seibert J. Smith
Earl L. Mason
Leesburg
Reginald K. Gheen
Walter E. Kempt Jr
M. C. Parson
Clarke County
Walter D. Wisecarver Jr
G. C. Sponseller
Middleburg
Growers Fund Forty Apple Juicer Machines
Appalachian Apple Service reports a fund of about 3500 from Frederick and Clarke growers to build 40 apple juicer machines for soda fountains, restaurants, and hotels. The device, perfected by Southern Cross Manufacturing, aims to open a new market for apples with potential mass orders.
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Appalachian
Carroll R. Miller
Applachian Apple Service
Frederick
Clarke
Miller
AAS
Howard Johnson
Baltimore
Southern Cross Manufacturing Co
Washington
Hoffmann
Appalachian Apple Service
Canfornia Fruit Growers Exchange
Amendment Holds Pensions to Vets Of World War 1
Washington March 23 pension backers pushed for swift House passage of a large veterans pension bill. The chamber reversed an earlier shelving vote, moving toward passage on a roll call after tentative support. The measure would provide broad pension benefits to World War I veterans.
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Washington
House
Cal
World War 2 Veterans Pension Issue Plays Out in House
In Washington on March 23 the House rejected a proposal to omit World War 2 veterans from a pension plan. An amendment by Rep. Huber sought to exclude World War 2 veterans and add WWI compensation, but it failed 163 to 3. Rep. Kearney then moved to strike all WW2 pension provisions, leaving the matter unresolved.
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Washington
House
Huber
Ohio
Kearney
Rankin World War pension bill faces narrow path in House
Lawmakers moved to strip World War 2 provisions from the Rankin plan and limit pensions to World War 1 veterans with potential added measures. A competing Huber proposal would require financial need and restrict eligibility to those with honorable discharges, while Rankin backers insist on preserving wartime scope.
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Rep
Rankin
D-Miss
Huber
Ohio
Kearney
RNY
Hinshaw
R-Caljis
House
Rankin Bill Backers
Allen
D-Ala
Protestant Unity Grows Says Oxnam at WCC Meeting
Evanston, March 23. The American section of the World Council of Churches held its first meeting with Methodist Bishop G Bromley Oxnam of New York elected chairman. Oxnam said differences among Protestants will become less important as unity increases and noted a doctrinal base exists. The delegates approved a four part program to tackle the communism versus capitalism debate through a development of a responsible society.
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Evanston
G. Bromley Oxnam
New York
Oxnam
World Council of Churches
Bishop Oxnam
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James
U.S
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Army Engineers
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Charles D
Mollie Cave Sloat
Robert E. Lee
Northern Virginia
Gen. Lee
Appomattox
Sloat
Howard Gosorn
Item
W. Boscawen St
Northern Virginia Daily
Evening Star
Winchester Evening Star
Richard E. Byrd
Scott Hans
State Dept
Kremlin
Shapley
Maine
Braithwaite
Lions of District
Ross Hoffmann
Southern Cross
Pace
W. B. Snider & Son
N. Cameron St
Headley’s
E. W. Armstrong CO
E. Es St. Winchester
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